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Ron Mexico is classic. I wonder if he used an accent. Also this lady is absurd, she is a health care worker for christs sake and she went ahead with unprotected sex? Especially from an african american guy claiming to be named "Ron Mexico" ? Damn.......

http://www.moviehole.net/news/5381.html

Triple H is already almost giving away the fact that he will be champ again in a few months. He did this same schtick with Benoit, about, how losing didn't matter because it was just one time, then it was a second time on PPV, and then FINALLY when HHH did beat Benoit in a lesser meaningful match on RAW, HHH acted like he had evened the score forever, and had proved to all the doubters that he was Benoit's superior.

No matter how ill your opinion of Car Salesman are, they are even worse then you think. If you go to McDonalds during off-hours, meaning more then a half hour before or after breakfast/lunch/dinner rushes, then you are more then likely to get meat/chicken/fish that has gone well past it's timer. In a Warehouse, Never assume you every move isn't being monitored in some form or fashion. Business casual dress code, is fucking vague.

If Blockbuster online's selection is atrocious and censored as their stores, then I would go with netflix.

I wonder if roids would help me on my drives in the hippie sport of frisbee golf..!?!

It would have been better if he was one of the guys with either the "Orton Kills Ratings" or "Batista is SO January" signs.

I loved the movie. Haven't left the theater with this feeling in a long time. Someone posted the DVD specs, and it looks awesome. This movie delivered on all levels, and exceeded my expectations highly. I really hope this movie does well, and I don't expect everyone to like the flick as much as I did, but I am not sure how someone could not at least minimally enjoy it.

Actually, I don't think he is a bad actor so much as that I think he has terrible range. he comes off as the same monotone guy in every role he seems to have, but it just happens to work in some situations, SIN CITY, being one of them.

I have some old issue of PWI which has an article about Hat Guy working a few indy shows as a ref.

Chappelle went off on the crowd here in Sacramento when he came to do standup, because the ignorant fucktards in the crowd were more interested in shouting, "YEaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" "What, What, Whaaaaaat" out, then listening to the standup. I guess that is a price to pay when a single piece of your work becomes some much more well known to the general public, then people who generally enjoy all of his work. There was a big article about it the following day in the paper, and it kind of made me glad I ended up not going because I for one would have been embarrased as a fan, and felt like shit for Mr. David Chappelle. In other stand-up news, Dave Attel is coming to town in a couple of months....I could only hope he would also be filming an episode of Insomniac as well....

The quote I bolded was legit, and everyone knows it, it only gets played daily on the radio. That all by itself should have him thrown out on his arse.

Indeed. At least the long articles I post are moderately interesting. -=Mike I never made the claim that an article pointing out Wolfowitz's clear incompetence, would be interesting.

Yet Wolfowitz goes unscathed, a promotion even? And Wolfowitz did what wrong, exactly? -=Mike ...And the Wolfowitz nomination was friggin' brilliant of Bush. Absolutely brilliant... http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news4/lind-...ic-success.html Catastrophic success The problem with Paul Wolfowitz isn't that he's an evil genius -- it's that he has been consistently wrong about foreign policy for 30 years. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Michael Lind March 17, 2005 | The nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to be president of the World Bank, following his commission of a long and costly series of blunders as deputy secretary of defense in George W. Bush's first term, comes as no surprise to those familiar with his career. Wolfowitz is the Mr. Magoo of American foreign policy. Like the myopic cartoon character, Wolfowitz stumbles onward blindly and serenely, leaving wreckage and confusion behind. Critics are wrong to portray Wolfowitz as a malevolent genius. In fact, he's friendly, soft-spoken, well meaning and thoughtful. He would be the model of a scholar and a statesman but for one fact: He is completely inept. His three-decade career in U.S. foreign policy can be summed up by the term that President Bush coined to describe the war in Iraq that Wolfowitz promoted and helped to oversee: a "catastrophic success." Even the greatest statesman makes some mistakes. But Wolfowitz is perfectly incompetent. He is the Mozart of ineptitude, the Einstein of incapacity. To be sure, he has his virtues, the foremost of which is consistency. He has been consistently wrong about foreign policy for 30 years. In the 1970s and 1980s, as a member of the Committee on the Present Danger and "Team B," Wolfowitz and his allies, such as Richard Perle, argued that the decrepit Soviet Union was vastly more powerful than the CIA claimed it was. After the Soviet Union dissolved, it turned out that the CIA had exaggerated Soviet strength. More than anyone else, Wolfowitz is associated with the neoconservative fantasy of a planetary Pax Americana. This strategy, originally called "reassurance," first surfaced in leaked Pentagon planning documents in 1992, in which Wolfowitz, working for then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, had a hand. The rest of the world reacted with outrage to the implication that Europe and Asia should remain permanent American protectorates. Embarrassed, the first president Bush and Secretary of State James Baker hastily disavowed this strategy. Unfortunately, no bad idea ever dies. Wolfowitz spent the Clinton years, while he was the dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced Strategic Studies, at the center of a network of neoconservative policy intellectuals, political appointees and mouthpieces like William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer devoted to maintaining U.S. hegemony in a "unipolar world." The influence of Wolfowitz and his fellow neoconservatives is clear in President Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy, which calls for the United States to dissuade "potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in the hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States." Note the language. Not "surpassing, or equaling, the power" of a coalition of states, like the alliances in which America took part in the world wars and the Cold War. No, the United States had to adopt as its motto the explanation of the single Texas Ranger dispatched to quell a mob: "One riot, one Ranger." Inadvertently proving that talent always skips a generation, Wolfowitz and his neoconservative allies persuaded Bush to pursue two policies his wiser father had rejected as imprudent: a bid for unilateral world domination and going all the way to Baghdad. By adopting the unilateral hegemony strategy that Wolfowitz favored, the younger Bush alienated most of America's traditional allies and gave credibility to anti-Americans everywhere. By going to Baghdad, as Wolfowitz wanted, the younger Bush exposed the limits of U.S. military power to America's enemies and the world as a whole. That not inconsiderable asset, the mystique of American power, is a casualty of the Iraq war. At least Wolfowitz and his neoconservative allies have been consistent. Since the Cold War ended, they have exaggerated American power in the same way that they exaggerated Soviet power during the Cold War. As if to prove the old adage that people come to resemble their enemies, these former cold warriors treat the United States as a twin of the Soviet Union -- a military empire contemptuous of international law, with satellites instead of allies, justifying wars in its spheres of influence by appeals to ideology ("democracy" rather than "socialism"). In the form of the concentration camps for detainees in Cuba, Iraq and elsewhere run by Donald Rumsfeld's and Wolfowitz's Pentagon, the neoconservatives even provided the United States with a gulag of its own. Wrong about geopolitics in general, Wolfowitz has been wrong about Iraq in particular. Unembarrassed by their ridiculous overestimation of Soviet strength, Wolfowitz and other veterans of the Committee for the Present Danger in the late 1990s took part in the Project for the New American Century. They proceeded to exaggerate the alleged threat to the U.S. from the bankrupt statelet left in Saddam Hussein's hands after the Gulf War even more shamelessly than they had hyped the Soviet menace. Focusing on Saddam and regional threats to Israel, Wolfowitz and the other strategic geniuses of the PNAC circle never mentioned Osama bin Laden. With myopia worthy of Mr. Magoo, Wolfowitz focused on Saddam, not bin Laden, as the major terrorist threat to the United States. According to Laurie Mylroie, the crackpot conspiracy theorist at the American Enterprise Insititute who continues to insist on a Saddam-bin Laden connection, Wolfowitz "provided crucial support" for her book "Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America," published in 2000. The following year, shortly after 9/11, according to Bob Woodward, Wolfowitz told a Cabinet meeting that there was a 10 to 50 percent chance that Saddam was involved. According to former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke, describing another occasion, "I could not believe it, but Wolfowitz was spouting the Laurie Mylroie theory that Iraq was behind the 1993 truck bomb at the World Trade Center, a theory that had been ... found to be totally untrue." As late as October 2002, Wolfowitz spoke of the Saddam regime's "training of al Qaeda members in bomb-making, poisons and deadly gasses." This had no basis in reality. Weapons of mass destruction? Wolfowitz claimed: "Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] for missions targeting the United States." Was Kansas in danger of being nuked by robot drones from Baghdad? Since the war ended, the Bush administration reluctantly has admitted that prewar skeptics were correct to argue that neither the weapons of mass destruction nor the robot planes capable of "targeting the United States" ever existed. It is unclear whether Wolfowitz actually believed what he said in public on this subject. As he told Sam Tanenhaus in a now-famous Vanity Fair interview, "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy itself, we settled on the one issue that everyone would agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason, but -- Hold on for one second." (At this point in the official Pentagon transcript a handler intervenes, evidently afraid that Wolfowitz has spilled one bean too many.) In military matters, this deputy secretary of defense displayed a level of ignorance without precedent in the history of civilian appointees to the Pentagon. (Even Robert McNamara's much-maligned "whiz kids" got some things right.) During the Clinton years Wolfowitz peddled the fantasy that American-supported rebels in Iraq could set up a base camp in one region and proceed to depose Saddam with minimal U.S. involvement. With the Bay of Pigs fiasco in mind, Gen. Anthony Zinni described this as the "Bay of Goats" strategy. When Gen. Eric Shinseki predicted that Iraq could not be pacified without hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, Wolfowitz told Congress that Shinseki was "wildly off the mark." "To assume we're going to have to pay for it all is just wrong," Wolfowitz declared, alluding to Iraqi oil revenues that could defray the costs of occupation and reconstruction. It is now clear that the hundreds of billions of dollars the United States will spend in Iraq will come from the pockets of American taxpayers. No summary of Wolfowitz's catastrophically successful career would be complete without acknowledgment that he was one of the major American sponsors of the disgraced Ahmed Chalabi, whom Paul Bremer's administration in Baghdad accused of involvement in Iranian espionage. Last but not least, following Wolfowitz's diplomatic mission to Turkey to obtain support for the forthcoming U.S. invasion of Iraq, Turkey decided to have nothing to do with the war. Diplomat, military tactician, grand strategist -- as I said, Paul Wolfowitz is perfectly incompetent. We live in a country in which privates are punished for the crimes of generals, so it is only natural that Wolfowitz should be rewarded for the blunders, errors and miscalculations that have cost the American and Iraqi people so much by promotion to the World Bank. That's the way it is with Mr. Magoo. Whenever he steps blindly out of a building he has accidentally set on fire, a truck is always conveniently passing by. *That about sums it up*

Yet Wolfowitz goes unscathed, a promotion even?

I think he wanted the rest of the Middle East to believe he had them, to thwart any attempted invasions, however the minute it looked like America was thinking about going to war, it seemed pretty evident that he didn't actually have them.

Iraq, since it's doing better, won't be reported on any longer (just as Afghanistan hasn't been). And Social Security? Just checking, you DO read the newspaper, right? -=Mike Yes, Afganistan is doing MUUUUCH better, if you are looking into buying mass quantities of Opium and Heroin.

Wait, so Hans Blix wasn't lying when he said the inspectors weren't finding any weapons, and that we didn't need to go to war? OOPS.

The fact that the military court actually came back with a guilty verdict, tends to make me think there is more to the story then we know.

Crosby got hit by a pitch on his wrist, messed him up good. Lets all hope it isn't broken.....

So I guess Terry Schiavo has a blog..... http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/

I didn't post a picture of an Escape though......or did I?

Maybe, Terry will miraculously wake up from a coma, look in the mirror, declare herself to look "too fat" and stick her finger down her throat, purge, and repeat the process that landed her into the vegetative state in the first place...?

That is just god damn disgusting. You know what? Let the stupid right for life people take her if they want her so bad. Maybe they'll dress her up and parade her out on TBN. The thing is, if one of them actually made it to Terry and poured water down her throat, she would die instantly. And you know this...how? -=Mike She can't swallow......... And, again, you know this...how? Nobody has been ALLOWED by Schiavo to try for years. -=Mike My first guess would be the need for a feeding tube.